Radeon R7 240 vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
208 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 125W)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 240
+48%
499
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
336
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Feb 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
-
780 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
320
Shading Units
112
20
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
499.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
125W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
G92
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
