GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs GTX 460M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking747not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.35no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF106G92
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 September 2010 (14 years ago)31 January 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19264
Core clock speed675 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt105 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6016.00
Floating-point processing power0.5184 TFLOPS0.16 TFLOPS
ROPs2416
TMUs3232

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-HE
Widthno dataMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB512 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz799 MHz
Memory bandwidth60.0 GB/s51.14 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API with Feature Level 12.111.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2010 31 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 105 Watt

GTX 460M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 110% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 460M and GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 460M is a notebook card while GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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