NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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 75W)

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.50GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830 +360%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3830

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

26.50GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV670

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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