NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 6800

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Shading Units

32

12

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Curie

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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