NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +1478%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV770

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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