NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)
5760 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages
Lower TDP (171W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+7432%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra
0.387 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1080 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
103.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
16
5888
Shading Units
128
184
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
24
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
36 MB
L2 Cache
96 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.69 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.17 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
171W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
G80
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
G80-450-A3
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
90 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.0
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
