AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +2596%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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