NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM 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 14.40GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (18W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+20%
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 235X OEM
0.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
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
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
160
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
18W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Caicos
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
