AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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AMD Radeon R9 390 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 +1130%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

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GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Dec 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

128

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

G92

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

G92-400-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

Board Design

275W

TDP

135W

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 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

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