NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.36GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 320GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 143W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 +145%

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

792 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

320MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

63.36GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

20

ROPs

8

-

80 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

24.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

228.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

143W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

G84

G80-100-K0-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.0

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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