NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250E
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 55W)
AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250E
+780%
0.819 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 8
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
819.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
51.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
55W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
123 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
