GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 285

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2008
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 285
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Dec 2008
GeForce GTX 285

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 285

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 285
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGT200B (G200-350-B3)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders112vs240
Compute Units7vs10
Core clock600 MHzvs648 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs56vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 285
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 285
TDP125 wattsvs204 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2008vs23 Dec 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    20.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    51.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    159.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 285
    708.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better