Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 640MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 640GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
2704 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+2031%
5733
GeForce 8800 GTS Core 112
269
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Nov 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
640MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
320bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
2816
Shading Units
112
176
TMUs
28
64
ROPs
20
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
80 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.00 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G80
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G80-100-K0-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.0
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
