NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT 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 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +1737%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

2304

56

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

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

G92-270-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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