GeForce 8500 GT vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT 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 8500 GT 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+220%
93
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
G84
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
