NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 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 9.600GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (15W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+250%
0.336 TFLOPS
FirePro 2270
0.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
80
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
15W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Cedar
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Cedar WS
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
