NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 90W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1188MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950
+1862%
1.825 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1024 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
90W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GM206
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
