NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
96 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 108W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 7 PCIe
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
24
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
108W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G70
GPU Name
G92
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
333 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
