NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8600

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600 +373%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 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

868 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R600

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

159W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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