AMD FirePro S9050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 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
AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1680 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S9050
+860%
3.226 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Feb 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
264.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
1792
Shading Units
112
112
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
100.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.226 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
806.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G92
Tahiti PRO GL
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
352 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
