ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +1205%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1440

Shading Units

64

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

160.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

302W

TDP

105W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G92

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 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

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