NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+20%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
8
64
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
240 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
