NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
+41%
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
24
112
Shading Units
192
56
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
182W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GT200
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
