NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+2350%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1664
32
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
148W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
