NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9270

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 160W)

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270 +1190%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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FireStream 9270

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV770

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

160W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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