NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5690
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
336 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (64W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5690
+287%
0.62 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Feb 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
799 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
400
32
TMUs
20
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.50 GTexel/s
-
-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
620.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
64W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Redwood
-
GPU Variant
Redwood XT
(215-0757002)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
