AMD FirePro S9050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro S9050

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 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

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +3368%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G84-400-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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