NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +6416%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GM200

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

601 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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