AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +1611%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

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GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Dec 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

128

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

G92-400-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

Board Design

175W

TDP

135W

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 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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