NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.02GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
+89%
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 100
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
38.02GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
4
48
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
12
ROPs
8
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
14.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
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-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94B
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
196 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
