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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) makes use of a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 970 MHz on this model. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5830, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1120(224x5) SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Radeon HD 5830 175 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5830 should be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 128000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 65920 (106%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 is a bit (about 8%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92). (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 44800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3200 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 is quite a bit (about 23%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (23%)

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 5830
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 February 25, 2010
Code Name G92 Cypress LE
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 44800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 1120(224x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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