NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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
Lower TDP (75W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
+312%
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Mar 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
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
197W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
G92
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
324 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
