AMD FirePro S9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S9000

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 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 S9000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9000 +3368%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti PRO 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

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