NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+1606%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
2816
56
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
500W
300 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Vesuvius
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
438 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
