AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370X and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 370X

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370X

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 612 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 82.4 GTexel / s vs 39.2 billion / sec
10x more pipelines: 1280 vs 128
6.8x better floating-point performance: 2,637 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
5.2x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 2 May 2007
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 612 MHz
Texture fill rate	82.4 GTexel / s vs 39.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	1280 vs 128
Floating-point performance	2,637 gflops vs 387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5600 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 171 Watt vs 180 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt vs 180 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Name	AMD Radeon R9 370X	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	65.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1139.703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.39
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	88.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	337.583
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8393
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348
PassMark - G3D Mark		643
PassMark - G2D Mark		252

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 370X	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Trinidad	G80
Launch date	27 August 2015	2 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$829
Place in performance rating	516	615
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Core clock speed	980 MHz	612 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,637 gflops	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280	128
Texture fill rate	82.4 GTexel / s	39.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	171 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	681 million
CUDA cores		612
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	221 mm	270 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB / s	103.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5600 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
SLI