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GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 Ultra features clock speeds of 612 MHz on the GPU, and 1080 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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

The Radeon RX 460 2GB, in theory, should perform just a bit faster 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 much (more or less 56%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 8800 Ultra. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is superior to the GeForce 8800 Ultra, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the 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 better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially 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 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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