NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +2033%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Jun 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

1350 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

12

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Hawaii

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

438 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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