NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +5955%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 290X

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

1250 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hawaii

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

438 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

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