NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7730 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730 +560%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7730

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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