NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9170

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 105W)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170 +434%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV670

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

105W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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