AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +918%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G92

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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