ATI FireGL V7600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V7600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V7600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 127W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V7600
+312%
0.384 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Sep 2007
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
384.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
127W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G84
R600 GL
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
