NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
272 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
AMD Radeon 540
+170%
0.908 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
384
56
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Lexa
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
