NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650 +773%

0.812 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 650

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK107

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GK107-450-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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