GeForce 8800 GS: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 8800 GS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.75% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 8800 GS sales 31 January 2008. This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 384 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 105 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 8800 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1187
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.57of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG92
Market segmentDesktop
Release date31 January 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 8800 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8800 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed550 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors754 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology65 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)105 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate26.40of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.264 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs12of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs48of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache48 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8800 GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length229 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8800 GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount384 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8800 GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce 8800 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 8800 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

8800 GS
0.75

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

8800 GS Samples: 108 330

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 8800 GS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 8800 GS's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8800 GS is Radeon HD 6450 GDDR5, which is faster by 12% and higher by 16 positions in our ranking.

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