NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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 106W)
ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
+210%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
106W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV670
-
GPU Variant
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
