AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1680 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +886%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

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GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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