ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +354%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8800 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jan 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

800

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G92

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

G92-150-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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