NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7770 GHz 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 80W)

AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

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

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition +1276%

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

80.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

80W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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