NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 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 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS +3%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

4

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

121 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

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