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GeForce 8800 GT 256MB vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 256MB comes with a GPU clock speed of 600 MHz, and the 256 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 700 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 112 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which comes with core speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M365X will be 61% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 44800 MB/sec
Difference: 27200 (61%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a little bit (about 10%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3400 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be quite a bit (about 54%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X 14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 256MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5200 (54%)

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 GT 256MB Radeon R9 M365X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 2015
Code Name G92 Cape Verde
Memory 256 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 44800 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 37000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 14800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 640
Texture Mapping Units 56 40
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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 256MB

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Radeon R9 M365X

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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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