Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+3495%
3344
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1792
Shading Units
32
112
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G84
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0