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GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

The GeForce 8800 Ultra features a GPU core speed of 612 MHz, and the 768 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 1080 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7790, which has clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790 85 Watts
GeForce 8800 Ultra 171 Watts
Difference: 86 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 Ultra will be 8% quicker than the Radeon HD 7790 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 8800 Ultra 103680 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 7680 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 should be a lot (more or less 43%) better at AF than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790 56000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra 39168 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16832 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 will be a small bit (more or less 9%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 8800 Ultra, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 Ultra 14688 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1312 (9%)

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 Ultra Radeon HD 7790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2007 March 2013
Code Name G80 Bonaire XT
Memory 768 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 612 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 2160 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 171 watts 85 watts
Bandwidth 103680 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 39168 Mtexels/sec 56000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14688 Mpixels/sec 16000 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 28 nm
Transistors 681 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 Ultra

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Radeon HD 7790

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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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