NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+6416%
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
176
TMUs
16
96
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
47W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
G84
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
601 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
