NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT 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 32.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT +3%

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9500 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

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

4.800 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G96

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

144 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

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