FirePro S7000 vs GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+2515%
2432
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Sep 2007
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1280
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G84
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
