NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V3900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V3900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 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 50W)

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900 +570%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Turks

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Turks GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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