NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS 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
Released 1 years and 5 months late
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Nov 2005
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 6 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.100 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
NV41
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
225 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
