NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3450

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 3450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3450 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

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3450 's Advantages

8 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition +93%

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3450

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3450

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV620

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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