NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+628%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
8
480
Shading Units
64
60
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
105W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G92
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
-
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
