NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 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 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +8488%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Capsaicin

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.0

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