NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (69W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240 +176%

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Nov 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

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

12

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

69W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT215

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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