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GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GS makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 800 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 8800 GS will be 167% quicker than the Radeon R5 M330 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS 38400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GS will be much (more or less 28%) better at AF than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GS 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330 20600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5800 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 should be a lot (more or less 25%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GS, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330 8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1640 (25%)

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 GS Radeon R5 M330
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Jan 2008 2015
Code Name G92 Oland
Memory 384 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1030 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 14400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 20600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 8240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320
Texture Mapping Units 48 20
Render Output Units 12 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 64-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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GS

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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