NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2394%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

294W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hemlock

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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