NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450 OEM 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 8.528GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6450 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450 OEM +115%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6450 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

533 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

8.528GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

32

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Caicos

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Junbonator

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

18W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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