NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 32MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 32 MB 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
More VRAM (128GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 2.656GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 47W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 8
Generation
Voodoo4-2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
2.656GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
2
8
ROPs
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
332.0 MPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
332.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
15W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
VSA-101
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Daytona
(355-0025-221)
Tesla
Architecture
Voodoo Scalable
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
180 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.014 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
112 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
6.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
