NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Sky 700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 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 225W)
AMD Radeon Sky 700 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1680 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon Sky 700
+860%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon Sky
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1792
56
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Tahiti
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
