NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +656%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

64

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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