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GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 Ultra comes with core speeds of 612 MHz on the GPU, and 1080 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features a core clock speed of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce 8800 Ultra 171 Watts
Difference: 96 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should theoretically be just a bit better than the GeForce 8800 Ultra overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra 103680 MB/sec
Difference: 8320 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be a lot (about 56%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra 39168 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21872 (56%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a little bit (more or less 19%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 8800 Ultra, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra 14688 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2752 (19%)

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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GeForce 8800 Ultra

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 Ultra Radeon RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2007 August 2016
Code Name G80 Polaris 11
Memory 768 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 612 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 2160 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 171 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 103680 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 39168 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14688 Mpixels/sec 17440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 896
Texture Mapping Units 64 56
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 14 nm
Transistors 681 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 Ultra

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Radeon RX 460 2GB

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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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