NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 115W)
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+2019%
1.971 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 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
896
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
115W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Bonaire
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
