NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 610 PCI 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 GT 610 PCI 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (29W vs 47W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 610 PCI
+67%
0.156 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2012
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
4
48
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.620 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
6.480 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
155.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
12.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
29W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
G84
GF119-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
79 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
