Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition and GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison

Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

R580

G92

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2006

February 2008

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

575 MHz

600 MHz

Floating-point performance

336.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

384 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

112

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

125 Watt

Texture fill rate

6.900

33.60

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

57.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

2x DVI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.0

3.3

Shader Model

3.0

4.0

Vulkan

N/A