ATI FirePro V3800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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ATI FirePro V3800

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro V3800 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

ATI FirePro V3800 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (43W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V3800 +459%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V3800

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

Release Date

Sep 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

400

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

13.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

520.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

43W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G84

Redwood PRO GL

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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