NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 6800

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.900 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

225 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

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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