GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 295 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 289W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 295
+77%
596
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
336
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
999 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
896MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
448bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.9GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
30
SM Count
14
240
Shading Units
112
80
TMUs
56
28
ROPs
16
224 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
46.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
596.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
74.52 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
289W
TDP
125W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G92
G200-401-B3
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
470 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
1.3
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
