GeForce 9800 GT vs GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT 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
GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9800 GT
+110%
336
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
160
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/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
8.000 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
G92
G92-280-B1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
324 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
