AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 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

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +170%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

0.336 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

384

Shading Units

112

24

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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