NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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
Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G84
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
169 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
