NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +243%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

32bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

12

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Lexa

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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