NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +1380%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

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Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

64

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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