AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +484%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Dec 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

135W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G92

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM

2

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

3

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

4

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

5

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

6

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI FirePro V9800

7

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Radeon HD 5450 PCIe x1

8

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

9

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400

10

AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game