NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 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
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+27%
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
12
112
Shading Units
96
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
84W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G92
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
