AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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AMD Radeon RX 590 GME NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

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

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +1590%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 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

-

SM Count

16

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

128

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G80

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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