ATI FireMV 2400 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM FireMV 2400 PCI 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 FireMV 2400 PCI 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (20W vs 47W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
4
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
2.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VHDCI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV380
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Rage 9
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.075 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
92 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
