NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (125W vs 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+20%
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
May 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
12
112
Shading Units
96
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
