NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670 +2732%

2.634 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1344

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

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2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G84

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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