AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 192 vs 128
  • Around 11% better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 10.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 155 Watt
  • Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 888 vs 590
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 98
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 February 2018 vs 8 November 2006
Pipelines 192 vs 128
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 155 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 888 vs 590
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 vs 98

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

  • Around 92% higher core clock speed: 576 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 3.1x more texture fill rate: 36.8 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3174
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3174
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 576 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 36.8 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349 vs 3174
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349 vs 3174

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
888
590
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
303
98
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3174
3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3174
3349
Name AMD Radeon Vega 3 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 888 590
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 98
Geekbench - OpenCL 3949
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 183.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 60.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3174 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3174 3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 418

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 3 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Tesla
Code name Owl G80
Launch date 13 February 2018 8 November 2006
Place in performance rating 1269 1266
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 576 MHz
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 192 128
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 155 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 681 million
CUDA cores 575

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 270 mm

Memory

Memory type System Shared GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Technologies

SLI