ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (73W vs 105W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
+11%
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jan 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
120
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G92
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
