NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP 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 late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Feb 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R500 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
57W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x Molex
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV570
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
