NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +1454%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Unknown

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

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tonga

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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