NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE 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 6.400GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+365%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 9300 GE
0.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/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
2.160 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G98
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
G98-700-U2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
80 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
