NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 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 25.60GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+3%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/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
4.400 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 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
G96C
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
121 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
