NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.02GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
+54%
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1008 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
38.02GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
6
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
12
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-
-
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-
-
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32 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
14.40 GTexel/s
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92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
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Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
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
G94B
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
196 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
