NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 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 150W)
AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
FirePro D300
+1260%
2.176 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
162.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1280
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
