NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V3600

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (73W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600 +54%

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

73W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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