NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G92 G92
GPU variant G92-270-A2 G92-420-A2
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 754 million 754 million
Die size 324 mm² 324 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 1st, 2008 Mar 28th, 2008
Generation GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 403 in our database 84 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 9 GeForce 200
Launch price 299 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 675 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz 1688 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 1100 MHz 2.2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 57.60 GB/s 70.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 112 128
TMUs 56 64
ROPs 16 16
SM count 14 16
Cache L2 64 KB 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 9.600 GPixel/s 10.80 GPixel/s
Texture rate 33.60 GTexel/s 43.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 336.0 GFLOPS 432.1 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 125 W 140 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
Board number P392

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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