NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 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 150W)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
+1190%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV770
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
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
