NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 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 84W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (384GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO +183%

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 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

800 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

12

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

12

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

84W

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

G92

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

324 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

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