NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +1990%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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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