NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 460 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 OEM
+839%
0.874 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
108.8GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
7
SM Count
4
336
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
36.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
873.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
72.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G84
GF104-325-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
332 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
