AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (103.7GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +134%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

384bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

384

Shading Units

128

24

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G80

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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