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.

AMD Radeon Vega 3

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

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: 890 vs 590
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 306 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	890 vs 590
PassMark - G2D Mark	306 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

890

590

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

306

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	890	590
PassMark - G2D Mark	306	98
Geekbench - OpenCL	3936
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	1264	1260
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