NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +2239%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

232 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

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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