NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 160W)
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
+1190%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
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
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
160W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV770
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
