AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 612 MHz
4922.4x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 39.2 billion / sec
18x more pipelines: 2304 vs 128
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
7.4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 2 May 2007
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 612 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 39.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	2304 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

62.4x better floating-point performance: 387.1 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 171 Watt vs 185 Watt

Floating-point performance	387.1 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Name	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510
PassMark - G3D Mark		643
PassMark - G2D Mark		252

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Polaris 20	G80
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	2 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$301.69	$829
Place in performance rating	683	615
Price now	$169.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	62.57
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	612 MHz
Floating-point performance	6.2 TFLOPs	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2304	128
Pixel fill rate	42.88 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s	39.2 billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt	171 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	681 million
CUDA cores		612
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Length		270 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	103.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
SLI