NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 +67%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

6

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

G94B

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

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

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