NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 210
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (31W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+138%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
31W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT218
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
