NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 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
Released 1 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 105W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
32W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV516
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
