GeForce 8800 GS and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 8800 GS
340
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 8800 GS
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
26.40
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A