NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS 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 5.328GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+322%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
8
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.268 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.268 GTexel/s
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
25W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G98
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
G98-400-U2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
