NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+562%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G86
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
127 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
