NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4700

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4700 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4700 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4700 +312%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4700

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV730

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV730 CE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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