NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 294W)
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+1350%
2.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
294W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Hemlock
-
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
