AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1407%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

2304

Shading Units

128

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G80

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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