NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V3750
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FirePro V3750 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 48W)
ATI FirePro V3750 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro V3750
+278%
0.352 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Sep 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
352.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
48W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV730
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
RV730 PRO
(215-0719056)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
146 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
