NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 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)

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 330 OEM +488%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

830 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hainan

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

56 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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