NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G92 G94
GPU variant G92-150-A2 G94-300-A1
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 754 million 505 million
Die size 324 mm² 240 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 31st, 2008 Oct 23rd, 2008
Generation GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 403 in our database 4 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 9 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 550 MHz 650 MHz
Shader clock 1375 MHz 1625 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 384 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 38.40 GB/s 57.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96 48
TMUs 48 24
ROPs 12 16
SM count 12 6
Cache L2 48 KB 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.600 GPixel/s 10.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 26.40 GTexel/s 15.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 264.0 GFLOPS 156.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 105 W 90 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P393 P545

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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