NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +4115%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1664

Shading Units

32

104

TMUs

16

56

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G84

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

398 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

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