NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +1070%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

14

32

Shading Units

448

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

40

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GT215

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GT215-400-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

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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