NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V8800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 208W)

ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800 +2738%

2.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V8800

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Apr 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

208W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cypress

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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