NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI 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 150W)

ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900 SDI +1895%

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V7900 SDI

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cayman

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x SDI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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