NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP 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 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP +88%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

12

ROPs

16

-

48 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV670

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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