NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
208 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+661%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 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
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
4
240
Shading Units
32
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G84
G200-350-B3
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
