NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
1632 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+4115%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 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
1008 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/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
5.400 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G84
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G84-400-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
