AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 320GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 143W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +446%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Feb 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

20

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

143W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G80

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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