GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking910not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR600G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 December 2007 (16 years ago)31 January 2008 (16 years ago)
Current priceno data$42

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32064
Core clock speed600 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors720 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt105 Watt
Texture fill rate9.60016.00
Floating-point performance384.0 gflops160 gflops

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-HE
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MHz1598 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s51.14 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2007 31 January 2008
Chip lithography 80 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 105 Watt

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