NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2 +312%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 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

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

4

128

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

197W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

G84

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

G84-303-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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