NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V5600

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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 89W)

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

88 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600 +106%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

89W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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