NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 285

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +3437%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tonga

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

190W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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