NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR 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 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
