NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (103.7GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +212%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1080 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

103.7GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

39.17 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

171W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

Lexa

G80-450-A3

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

90 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.0

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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