NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
+412%
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
448bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
24
32
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
182W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT200
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
