NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1 GB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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
More VRAM (512GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
+451%
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
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799 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
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-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G86S
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
