NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1576%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2816

56

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

Hawaii

G92-270-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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