NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 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 W600 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W600 +725%

0.768 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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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