AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1576%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

2816

Shading Units

112

176

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

2

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

3

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

4

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

5

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

6

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FireGL V8600

7

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FirePro V4800

8

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

9

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

10

AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early