NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP 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 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP +360%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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