NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM +346%

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

G84

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

470 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

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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