NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 127W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +830%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

127W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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