NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +2806%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

32

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cayman

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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