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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon R9 M270X

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) features a clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 970 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 128 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M270X, which has a core clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M270X should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 9920 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be quite a bit (about 43%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M270X. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M270X 29000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12600 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M270X will be a bit (more or less 12%) better at AA than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M270X 11600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1200 (12%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Radeon R9 M270X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 May 1 2014
Code Name G92 Venus XT
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 29000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 11600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 640
Texture Mapping Units 64 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 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be processed 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 card will be at handling 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 graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)

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Radeon R9 M270X

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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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