HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) |
| 121 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. |
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Bay Trail GT1 () | vs | G92 (G92-270-A2) |
| Fab Process | 22 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 177 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 392 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 4 | vs | 112 |
| Compute Units | 0 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 350 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 2 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 2 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1) | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 4 watts | vs | 125 watts |
| Release Date | 2 Sep 2013 | vs | 1 Feb 2008 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better