NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +1346%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

32

60

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G84

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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