NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 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 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2 +912%

0.942 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 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

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/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

9.814 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

160W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF104

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

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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