GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 GTX 295 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
208 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 289W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 295
+540%
596
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
999 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
896MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
448bit
Memory Bus
128bit
111.9GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
30
SM Count
4
240
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
28
ROPs
8
224 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
46.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
596.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
74.52 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
289W
TDP
47W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G84
G200-401-B3
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
470 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
1.3
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
