NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro RG220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+16%
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro RG220
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro RG
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/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
35W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
M93
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
