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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX: specs and benchmarks
Price now
78$
Games supported
58%
- Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
- Core clock speed 576 MHz
- Max video memory 768MB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 900MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2006
Performance
2.04
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8800 GTX sales 8 November 2006 at a recommended price of $599. This is Tesla architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 768 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 86.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 270 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 155 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
2.04%
of a leader's which is AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT.
General info
Of GeForce 8800 GTX's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 836 | |
| Value for money | 0.79 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G80 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 8 November 2006 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $599 | |
| Price now | $78 (0.1x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce 8800 GTX's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8800 GTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 128 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| CUDA cores | 575 | |
| Core clock speed | 576 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) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 155 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 36.8 billion/sec | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 345.6 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce 8800 GTX's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 270 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8800 GTX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 768 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
| Memory bandwidth | 86.4 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8800 GTX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 8800 GTX, 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 | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce 8800 GTX. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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.
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce 8800 GTX 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.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce 8800 GTX performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD equivalent
The nearest GeForce 8800 GTX's AMD equivalent is Radeon HD 7570, which is faster by 3% and higher by 10 positions in our rating.
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