AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+434%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
