NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM FireMV 2400 PCI 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 16.00GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI FireMV 2400 PCI 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (20W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/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
2.000 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
20W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x VHDCI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV380
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Rage 9
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.075 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
92 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
