NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +1600%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1600

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

334 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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