NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 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 14.40GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 235 OEM
+166%
0.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
248.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
35W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Caicos
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
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
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
