NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 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 244W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2
+370%
1.581 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jun 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
16
112
Shading Units
512
56
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
244W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
GF110
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
GF110-380-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
3 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
