GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon 9800 SE

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1530not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR350G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 March 2003 (22 years ago)31 January 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data64
Core clock speed378 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors117 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data105 Watt
Texture fill rate1.51216.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.16 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432
L2 Cacheno data64 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xMXM-HE
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsFloppyNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed297 MHz799 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.01 GB/s51.14 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 31 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 150 nm 65 nm

8800 GS Mac Edition has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 130.8% more advanced lithography process.

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