ATI FirePro V3700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FirePro V3700 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
ATI FirePro V3700 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (32W vs 47W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V3700
0.064 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+45%
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
950 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
15.20GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
40
Shading Units
32
4
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
3.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
64.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV620
GPU Name
G84
RV620 GL
(215-0670004)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.181 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
