NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 365W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
+677%
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
16
64
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.46 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
365W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
No outputs
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF110
-
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
3 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
520 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
