NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1280GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
+1070%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
14
32
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
215W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF100
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
529 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
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
