NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM 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 GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
112 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 106W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
+384%
0.451 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2010
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
902 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.73GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
3
SM Count
4
144
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.698 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
18.79 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
451.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
37.58 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
106W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF106
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
238 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
