NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 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 75W)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +1262%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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