NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 125W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 7 PCIe
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
-
Shading Units
112
24
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
108W
TDP
125W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G70
GPU Name
G92
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
333 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
