NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 530 OEM 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 530 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 530 OEM +189%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 530 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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