NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 320GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 143W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.36GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GTS 320
+18%
0.228 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Feb 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
320MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
63.36GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
12
64
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
80 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.26 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.62 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
228.1 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
143W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G80
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G80-100-K0-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.0
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
