NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
+580%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
14
64
Shading Units
448
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF100
-
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
