AMD Radeon R5 M320 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 M320 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R5 M320

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 M320

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.9x more pipelines: 320 vs 112
Around 63% better floating-point performance: 547.2 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 139 vs 53

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 29 October 2007
Pipelines	320 vs 112
Floating-point performance	547.2 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	139 vs 53

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Around 92% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 780 MHz
Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 33.6 billion / sec vs 17.1 GTexel / s
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 469 vs 457

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 780 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.6 billion / sec vs 17.1 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	469 vs 457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 M320
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

469

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

139

Name	AMD Radeon R5 M320	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	457	469
PassMark - G2D Mark	139	53
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.564
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1202
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1202
Geekbench - OpenCL	5002
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3346

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 M320	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Jet	G92
Design	AMD Radeon R5 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	29 October 2007
Place in performance rating	1394	1390
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Boost clock speed	855 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	780 MHz	1500 MHz
Floating-point performance	547.2 gflops	336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	112
Texture fill rate	17.1 GTexel / s	33.6 billion / sec
Transistor count	1,040 million	754 million
CUDA cores		112
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		105 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVIHDTV
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		9" (22.9 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	900 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
DualGraphics
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore
3D Vision
CUDA
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)		128bit