ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro 2460 Multi View 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 FirePro 2460 Multi View 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (17W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro 2460 Multi View
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+16%
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2010
Release Date
Sep 2007
FirePro Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
1
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
80
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
4.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
17W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cedar
GPU Name
G84
Cedar GL
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
59 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
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
