GeForce 8800 GTX and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G80
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
320
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 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
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A