GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 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 780 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +4368%

4156

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

93

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

192

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

G84

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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