NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 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 175W)

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830 +1826%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1120

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cypress

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

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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