NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500 +2515%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/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

30.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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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