NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +7444%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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