NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +2446%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 270

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 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Curacao

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 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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