NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition +136%

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

16

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96C

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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