NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition +3%

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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