NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +549%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

820 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

52.48GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

128

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

41.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

416.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Antilles

G92-400-A2

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

135W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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