NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+1763%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
2
240
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G84
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
-
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
