NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 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 300W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1019MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690 +3265%

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 690

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1019 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.61 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.4 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.130 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

130.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GK104

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GK104-355-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

294 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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