NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 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 8.000GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490 +11%

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cedar

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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