AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro S9300 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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 S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9300 X2 +8488%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Sep 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

4096

Shading Units

32

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

G84

Capsaicin XT

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.0

Shader Model

4.0

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