NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
Lower TDP (60W vs 65W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
+234%
0.311 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
96
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
60W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G84
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
