AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+2294%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
32
96
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
47W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G84
Tahiti LE GL
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
