NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
784 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+486%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
896
56
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
115W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Bonaire
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
