AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1355%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2816

Shading Units

128

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

290W

TDP

171W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G80

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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