NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
+321%
0.16 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
MXM-HE
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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799 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.14GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
16.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
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-
-
160.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G84
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-
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Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
