NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+1865%
1.828 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
G84
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
