NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)
Lower TDP (95W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
+30%
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
0.16 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
8
64
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G92
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
324 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
