NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 X2
+154%
0.855 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
107.1GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
11
SM Count
14
352
Shading Units
112
44
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
13.38 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
26.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
855.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G92
GF100-030-A3
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
