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