GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 710

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2008
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GT 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 710

106 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors754 millionvsunknown
Shaders112vs192
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710
TDP125 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better