NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +2494%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM206

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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