NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 32.00GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G84
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
