GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce 8800 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2512MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
6032 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+9087%
30870
GeForce 8800 GT
336
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Oct 2007
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
-
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
14
6144
Shading Units
112
192
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
125W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
G92
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.4
Vulkan
N/A
10.1
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
