NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V5800 DVI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 DVI 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 74W)
ATI FirePro V5800 DVI 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro V5800 DVI
+1087%
1.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.04 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1104 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
74W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Juniper
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Juniper XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
166 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
