NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +2268%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

64

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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