NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 160W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460
+169%
0.907 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jul 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
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
86.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
7
112
Shading Units
336
56
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.450 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
907.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF104
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
332 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
