GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which has clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (181%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon VII should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 990976 (1720%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (more or less 900%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 302400 (900%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80000 (833%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.