AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 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 9250 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+975%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
800
Shading Units
32
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
47W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G84
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
