NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2006
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
NV43
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
