GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition sales 1 February 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 125 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 February 2008 (18 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 112 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 125 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 33.60 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.336 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 57.6 GB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition is Radeon HD 8470D.
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