AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +2987%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

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GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

160.0 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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