NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1221%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

85W

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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 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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