NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI 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

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Apr 2004

GeForce 8

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

NV41

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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