NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT 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 12.80GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition +220%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G86

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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