GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R7 240

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2008
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240

95 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 ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 240

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 240
GPU NameG92 (G92-270-A2)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders112vs320
Compute Units7vs5
Core clock600 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs56vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 8800 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 240
TDP125 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2008vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    33.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
    336.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better