NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT
+273%
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
4
112
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G96C
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
