NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro RG220A
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+16%
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro RG220A
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro Remote
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
80
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
35W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
M93
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
73 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
