GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2008
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

96 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
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

HWBench recommends GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs292 million
Shaders112vs48
Compute Units7vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
TDP125 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2008vs22 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better