NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI 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)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+24%
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
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
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
2
112
Shading Units
96
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
49W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF108
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
