NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W7100

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD FirePro W7100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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)

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

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

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100 +3445%

3.297 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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FirePro W7100

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

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

29.44 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tonga

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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