NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 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 21.34GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
+234%
0.311 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Feb 2011
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
21.34GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.240 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.96 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
311.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
25.92 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
65W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF108
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF108-400-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
