NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +4194%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

274W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 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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