NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 610 PCI 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 10.67GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (29W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 610 PCI
+67%
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
29W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF119
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
79 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
