NVIDIA started GeForce 8800 GTX sales 8 November 2006 at a recommended price of $599 . This is a 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 a dual-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	969
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02
Power efficiency	0.68	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	G80
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	8 November 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce 8800 GTX's specs 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	575	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	576 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	681 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	155 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	36.86	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.3456 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	24	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	32	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8800 GTX 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	270 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8800 GTX: 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	768 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8800 GTX. 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 compatibility

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 RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. 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.

8800 GTX 1.53

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 GTX 590

Gaming performance

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.

Closest competitors

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

Radeon R6 M255DX 102.61

GeForce GT 430 101.31

GeForce GTS 250 100.65

GeForce 8800 GTX 100

HD Graphics 5000 99.35

HD Graphics 5500 98.69

Radeon R5 A240 97.39

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8800 GTX is Radeon R6 M255DX, which is faster by 3% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.