NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)
AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 590
+2018%
7.119 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Nov 2018
GeForce 8
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/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
49.44 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Polaris 30
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
12 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
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
