NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM +436%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 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

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Oland

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

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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