ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 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

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (30W vs 105W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

24 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition +233%

0.16 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jan 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

40

Shading Units

64

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

160.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

105W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

G92

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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