NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 159W)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
208 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT
0.336 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
+30%
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
320
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
159W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
R600
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
