GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV530G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2007 (17 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 coresno data64
Core clock speed590 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors157 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)42 Watt105 Watt
Texture fill rate2.36016.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.16 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-HE
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed690 MHz799 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.08 GB/s51.14 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2007 31 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 90 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 42 Watt 105 Watt

ATI X1600 XT has 150% lower power consumption.

8800 GS Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1600 XT and GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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