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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 3870 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) has core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 970 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 3870 1GB, which comes with a core clock frequency of 775 MHz and a GDDR4 memory speed of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 320(64x5) SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 3870 1GB 106 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Difference: 29 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 3870 1GB should theoretically perform a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 1GB 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 9920 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be much (approximately 235%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3870 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3870 1GB 12400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29200 (235%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 3870 1GB should be a bit (about 19%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 1GB 12400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2000 (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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Radeon HD 3870 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 Nov 19, 2007
Code Name G92 RV670 XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 2250 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 106 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 12400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 12400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 16
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)

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