NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM 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 85W)

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM +1634%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

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

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

85W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tobago

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

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

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