NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV43

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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