GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 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 GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1040 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+1071%
3935
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
336
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
14
1152
Shading Units
112
72
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
125W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
G92
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
