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).

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

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	1604
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