NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
+224%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Mar 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
837 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
14
112
Shading Units
448
56
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF100
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
529 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
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
