GeForce 8800 GS vs GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

GeForce 8800 GS
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2008
GeForce 8800 GS
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GS

99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GSGeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
GPU NameG92 (G92-150-A2)vsGT200B (G200-350-B3)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders96vs240
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock550 MHzvs648 MHz
ROPs12vs32
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GSGeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
Memory Size384 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GSGeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
TDP105 wattsvs204 watts
Release Date31 Jan 2008vs15 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GS
    6.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    20.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GS
    26.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    51.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GS
    38.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    159.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GS
    264.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    708.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better