NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
+198%
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
May 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
12
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
140W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
