NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+1604%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
2304
56
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
