In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FireGL 8800 are massively better than the Nvidia GeForce 7050.

The GeForce 7050 was released over three years more recently than the FireGL 8800, and so the GeForce 7050 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the FireGL 8800 when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The GeForce 7050 and the FireGL 8800 have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GeForce 7050 has 3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the FireGL 8800, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce 7050 is marginally better than the FireGL 8800.

Both the GeForce 7050 and the FireGL 8800 have 2 Shader Processing Units. While the two GPUs have the same number of SPUs, the actual performance delivered by the GeForce 7050 is 1 and by the FireGL 8800 is 0. Knowing that the shader performance of the GeForce 7050 is superior, it is not necessary to examine the GPUs' respective Texture and Pixel Fill Rates.

We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the FireGL 8800, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the GeForce 7050.