NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8800 GTS 320 sales 12 February 2007 at a recommended price of $269 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 320 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.58 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 63.36 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 143 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 8800 GTS 320: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G80 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 February 2007 (17 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $269 | |
| Current price | $49 (0.2x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce 8800 GTS 320's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8800 GTS 320's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 513 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 681 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 143 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 24.62 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 228.1 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8800 GTS 320 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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8800 GTS 320: 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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 320 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1584 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 63.36 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8800 GTS 320. 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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 8800 GTS 320, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8800 GTS 320 is Radeon HD 7480D.
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