NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 Ti 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 560 Ti 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
+1258%
1.263 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
13.17 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
52.67 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1263 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
105.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
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
GF114
GPU Name
G84
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Fermi 2.0
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
