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GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon R9 M370X
Intro
The GeForce 8800 GTX makes use of a 90 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 575 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare that to the Radeon R9 M370X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth
The GeForce 8800 GTX should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)
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86400 MB/sec |
| Radeon R9 M370X |
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72000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce 8800 GTX should be just a bit (more or less 15%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)| GeForce 8800 GTX |
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36800 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon R9 M370X |
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32000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The GeForce 8800 GTX is a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)| GeForce 8800 GTX |
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13800 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon R9 M370X |
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12800 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce 8800 GTX | Radeon R9 M370X |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | Nov 2006 | 2015 |
| Code Name | G80 | Cape Verde |
| Memory | 768 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 575 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 4500 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 155 watts | (Unknown) watts |
| Bandwidth | 86400 MB/sec | 72000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 36800 Mtexels/sec | 32000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 13800 Mpixels/sec | 12800 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 128 | 640 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 64 | 40 |
| Render Output Units | 24 | 16 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 384-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 90 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 681 million | (Unknown) million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10 | DirectX 12 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 4.3 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
GeForce 8800 GTXAmazon.com
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Radeon R9 M370XAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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