NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI +1262%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 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

39.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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