NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 171W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (103.7GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra
+101%
0.387 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
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266 MHz
Memory Clock
1080 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
768MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
103.7GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
8
SM Count
16
64
Shading Units
128
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
24
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
96 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.69 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.17 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
171W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G80
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G80-450-A3
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
