NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

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

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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

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

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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