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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon RX 5700

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The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 180 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 458752 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 401152 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (approximately 528%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 177360 (528%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 84160 (877%)

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 GT 512MB Radeon RX 5700
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Oct 2007 July 2019
Code Name G92 Navi 10
Memory 512 MB 8096 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 1465 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 180 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 458752 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 210960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 93760 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 2304
Texture Mapping Units 56 144
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 7 nm
Transistors 754 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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Radeon RX 5700

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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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