NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 480 Core 512 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
400 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
+220%
1.078 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
14
512
Shading Units
112
64
TMUs
56
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
33.73 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
1078 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
375W
TDP
125W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G92
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
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
