NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 280 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +568%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G84

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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