NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 PCI 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+165%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 210 PCI
0.035 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.900 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.20 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
31W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT216
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
