NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V9800P

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI FirePro V9800P

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800P 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 225W)

ATI FirePro V9800P 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB 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 V9800P +2824%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

FirePro V9800P

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Sep 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

4GB

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

27.20 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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