GeForce 8800 GT vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT
+75%
336
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
14
SM Count
8
112
Shading Units
64
56
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G94
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
