NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 vs 8800 GT

HOME
Compare GPUs
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 vs 8800 GT

Theoretical performance comparison

Real-world game, 3D graphics and compute performance depends on several GPU parameters, including single- and double-precision performance, texture fillrate, pixel fillrate, along with memory bandwidth. Why they are important and which card has better characteristics you will find below.

Pixel fill rate (gigapixels/s)

9.6

Higher is better

Since it has twice as many ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines), the GeForce 7950 GX2 provides substantially higher pixel fill rate, even though its graphics clock is lower. Having better pixel fillrate allows the GPU to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

- NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

Texture fill rate (gigatexels/s)

33.6

Higher is better

The maximum texture fillrate is dependent on graphics frequency and the number of TMUs. The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT has more Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) and runs at higher rate, therefore its fill rate is better.. Better maximum texture fill rate allows the graphics card to use more sophisticated 3D effects and/or map more textures to each texel, which improves visual appearance of games and generated images.

Memory bandwidth (GB/s)

76.8

57.6

Higher is better

To speed up processing, the graphics cards store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the graphics card to run at higher screen resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and memory interface width all affect the bandwidth value. In this case, higher memory bandwidth of the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card is due to wider memory bus.

Specs comparison

All rows with different specifications or features are highlighted.


General information
Market segment	Desktop
Manufacturer	NVIDIA
Model	GeForce 7950 GX2	GeForce 8800 GT
Architecture / Interface
Die name
Architecture
Fabrication process
Bus interface
Cores / shaders
CUDA cores
ROPs
Pixel shader processors
Pixel fill rate
Vertex shader processors
Vertex Fill rate
Texture units
Texture fill rate
Single Precision performance
Clocks / Memory
Graphics clock	500 MHz	600 MHz
Processor clock		1500 MHz
Memory size	1024 MB
Memory type	GDDR3
Memory clock
Memory interface width
Memory bandwidth
Other features
Maximum SLI options