NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 X2
+819%
0.855 TFLOPS
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
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
107.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
11
32
Shading Units
352
16
TMUs
44
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
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-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
215W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
3x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF100
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
529 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
