NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 x2 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
Lower TDP (47W vs 265W)
AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro S7150 x2
+3445%
3.297 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Feb 2016
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro Server
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.44 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.297 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.297 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
206.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
265W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Tonga
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Cloudy Tau
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
