NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6570 OEM 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 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (44W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570 OEM +570%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6570 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

44W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Turks

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Turks PRO-G

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 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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