GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 650

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2008
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 650

60 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.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 650
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders112vs384
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs56vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionGeForce GTX 650
TDP125 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2008vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    33.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better