NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 7 years 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 295X2
+6064%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Apr 2014
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
65.15 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Vesuvius
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
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
