NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +2460%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

799 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.14GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

16.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

160.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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