NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +1155%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tahiti

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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