NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +1146%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/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

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tonga

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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