NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 240
+436%
0.499 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/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
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Oland
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
77 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
