ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 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

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2394%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G84

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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