GeForce 6200 X2 PCI vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 PCI and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 6200 X2 PCI 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 6 PCI
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
200 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
3.200GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
4
TMUs
16
2
ROPs
8
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
560.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
1.120 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV44
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.075 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
110 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
