Radeon R5 230 OEM vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 125W)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+68%
336
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Feb 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
160
Shading Units
112
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
125W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
G92
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0