GeForce 8800 GS and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce 8800 GS
340
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce 8800 GS
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
26.40
11.89
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A