NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 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 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+3%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 100
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
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
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
