NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 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 12.67GB/s)

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

88 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730 +86%

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV635

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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