NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +198%

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

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

G92

GPU Name

G84

-

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

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