NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 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 ES 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/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 ES
+1024%
1.046 TFLOPS
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
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
128.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
7
32
Shading Units
336
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 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
