NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
912 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
+618%
2.413 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1024
56
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GM206
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
