NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.19GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 +1024%

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

7

32

Shading Units

336

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

160W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF114

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

332 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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