NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

  • 4.4x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
  • 3.5x more pipelines: 112 vs 32
  • 5.5x better floating-point performance: 336.0 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 33.6 GTexel / s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 112 vs 32
Floating-point performance 336.0 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

  • Around 58% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 6.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 125 Watt
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Name NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1053

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Tesla
Code name G92 G84
Launch date 1 February 2008 1 February 2008
Place in performance rating not rated 1603
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 950 MHz
Floating-point performance 336.0 gflops 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 112 32
Texture fill rate 33.6 GTexel / s 7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 754 million 289 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory 0