NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6490

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490 +278%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6490

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 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

500 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Redwood

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

39W

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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