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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 3850 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) comes with a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 970 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 128 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 3850 1GB, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 668 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 828 MHz on this card. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 3850 1GB 75 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should theoretically be just a bit better than the Radeon HD 3850 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 1GB 52992 MB/sec
Difference: 9088 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is quite a bit (more or less 289%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 1GB 10688 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 30912 (289%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3850 1GB is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 1GB 10688 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 288 (3%)

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 3850 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 Nov 19, 2007
Code Name G92 RV670 PRO
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 668 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 1656 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 52992 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 10688 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 10688 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 16
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)

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