GeForce 8800 GTX and Radeon HD 4870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1348
GeForce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G80
R700
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2006
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
575
-
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
800
Power consumption (TDP)
155 Watt
286 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.8 billion/sec
28.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
768 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s
115.2 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
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A