NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 PCI 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 3.200GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 6 PCI
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
3.200GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
560.0 MPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.120 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
NV44
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.075 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
110 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
