NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
+210%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
