NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9370
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 225W)
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
FireStream 9370
+685%
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
1600
56
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Cypress
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
334 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
