NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W4300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 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)

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300 +1435%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 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

6.3

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