NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +568%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 280

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT200

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

G200-300-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

Board Design

47W

TDP

236W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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