NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2460 Multi View to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (17W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+16%
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro 2460 Multi View
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
80
16
TMUs
8
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
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
17W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Cedar
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Cedar GL
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
