NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 197W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2 +45%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

16

96

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

12

ROPs

16

-

48 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

197W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

G92

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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