NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 220 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 22.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 58W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 220
+54%
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
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
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
6
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
14.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
58W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G94
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
240 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
