NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 Core 216 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (896GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 +476%

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 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

27

32

Shading Units

216

16

TMUs

72

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

41.47 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 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

G200-103-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

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