Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs GeForce 8800 GTS 320
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | GCN 5.0 (2017−2020) |
| GPU code name | G80 | Raven |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 12 February 2007 (17 years ago) | 19 April 2018 (6 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $269 | no data |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | 512 |
| Core clock speed | 513 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1101 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 681 million | 4,940 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 143 Watt | 35 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 24.62 | 35.23 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2281 TFLOPS | 1.127 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 20 | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | 32 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | IGP |
| Length | 267 mm | no data |
| Width | 2-slot | IGP |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 320 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 792 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 63.36 GB/s | no data |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | 6.4 |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 12 February 2007 | 19 April 2018 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 143 Watt | 35 Watt |
Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 11 years, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 308.6% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800 GTS 320 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.
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