GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 7800 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GTX vs GeForce 7800 GT
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
GeForce 7800 GT
251
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 7800 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G80
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
August 2005
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
-
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
8.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A