NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1218MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
400 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon 550X
+271%
1.247 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 8
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1082 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
512
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Lexa
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
