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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB uses a 90 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 513 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 792 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 20 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5830, which has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1120(224x5) SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB 143 Watts
Radeon HD 5830 175 Watts
Difference: 32 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5830 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 128000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB 63360 MB/sec
Difference: 64640 (102%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 should be a lot (more or less 82%) better at AF than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 44800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB 24624 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20176 (82%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5830 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830 12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB 10260 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2540 (25%)

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 (G80) 640MB Radeon HD 5830
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Nov 2006 (640) February 25, 2010
Code Name G80 Cypress LE
Memory 640 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 513 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1584 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 143 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 63360 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24624 Mtexels/sec 44800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10260 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1120(224x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 20 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 40 nm
Transistors 681 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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