NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900 +3561%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Orthrus

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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