NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4830 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 95W)

ATI Radeon HD 4830 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4830 +691%

0.736 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4830

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.40 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

736.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

147.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV770

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 LE (215-0669075)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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