NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +1590%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1080 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

103.7GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

39.17 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

171W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G80-450-A3

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

90 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

232 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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