NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 660 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +489%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

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GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G92

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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