NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (32W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
32W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV516
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
