NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 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 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
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
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
27W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV516
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
