NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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 12.80GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+106%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G96C
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
121 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
