NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490 +1153%

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 490

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

854 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

15

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

60

8

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

365W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF100

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF100-375-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

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