NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
5792 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
+10941%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
12
5888
Shading Units
96
184
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
12
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
36 MB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
105W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
G92
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
295 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
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
