GeForce 8800 GT and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 8800 GT

Switch GPU

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

G92

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2007

March 2017

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

None

SLI options

2-way

-

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

-

CUDA cores

112

-

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

256

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

33.6 billion/sec

12.29

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126

High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)

128bit

-