NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W7000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 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
Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)
AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1168 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
FirePro W7000
+623%
2.432 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1280
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Pitcairn
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
212 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
