ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +690%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1440

Shading Units

96

72

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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