NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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
Released 1 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 105W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
57W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV570
-
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
