GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 GT 430 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
64 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+189%
269
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
96
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G84
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
