NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro RG220

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro RG220

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

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

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