AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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
AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
2752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+3420%
5.632 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Jan 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2816
Shading Units
64
176
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
290W
TDP
105W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
G92
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
