GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 7790
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 7790 |
| 40 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 Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7790
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92 (G92-270-A2) | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 324 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 112 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 7 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7790 | |
|---|
| TDP | 125 watts | vs | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Feb 2008 | vs | 22 Mar 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better