NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition +261%

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

4

112

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

G84

G92-270-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

2

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro V620

4

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 480

5

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

6

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

7

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

8

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA T1000 8 GB

9

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

10

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6300

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

4

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

5

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

6

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

7

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

8

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

9

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

10

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game