NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 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 9.600GB/s)

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 +3%

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

15W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DMS-59

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cedar

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

59 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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