NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 315
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)
NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
NVS 315
+7%
0.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
875 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
14.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.046 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.184 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
100.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
8.368 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
19W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF119
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GF119-825-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
79 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
