NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
+140%
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
16
64
Shading Units
128
32
TMUs
64
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
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
197W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G92
-
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
324 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
