NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 220W)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +4436%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hawaii

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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