NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP 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 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +254%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1080 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

103.7GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

128

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

39.17 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

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

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 Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.0

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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