NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs 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
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
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
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
