GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 125W)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
264
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+27%
336
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
12
SM Count
14
96
Shading Units
112
48
TMUs
56
12
ROPs
16
48 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
TDP
125W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G92
-
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
