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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 memory is set to run at a frequency of 970 MHz on this particular card. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M280X, which features clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M280X, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 25920 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X should be quite a bit (about 21%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92). (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8800 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M280X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4000 (38%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Radeon R9 M280X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 Feb 9 2015
Code Name G92 Saturn XT
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 896
Texture Mapping Units 64 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)

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Radeon R9 M280X

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