NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT 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 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Sep 2005
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
NV42
-
GPU Variant
6800 XT
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
