NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR 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
Released 7 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
NV10
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
