NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 510
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM NVS 510 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA NVS 510 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
NVS 510
+229%
0.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.188 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.75 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
306.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.75 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
35W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GK107
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GK107-301-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
