NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6200 X2 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
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 6 PCI
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
3.200GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
560.0 MPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.120 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
NV44
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.075 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
110 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
