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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB has a core clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It features 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 225 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (114%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 458752 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 401152 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 664%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 223200 (664%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be a lot (about 970%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 93120 (970%)

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 512MB Radeon RX 5700 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Oct 2007 July 2019
Code Name G92 Navi 10
Memory 512 MB 8096 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 1605 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 225 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 458752 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 256800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 102720 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 2560
Texture Mapping Units 56 160
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 7 nm
Transistors 754 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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Radeon RX 5700 XT

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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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