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GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GS uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5830, which comes with a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1120(224x5) SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS 105 Watts
Radeon HD 5830 175 Watts
Difference: 70 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5830 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce 8800 GS overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 128000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 89600 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 will be much (about 70%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 44800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18400 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5830 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6200 (94%)

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 GS Radeon HD 5830
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Jan 2008 February 25, 2010
Code Name G92 Cypress LE
Memory 384 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 44800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1120(224x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends 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 GS

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