NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 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 130W)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860 +239%

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

32

12

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV790

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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