NVIDIA NVS 300 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 300

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (18W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition +138%

0.093 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2007

NVS

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

16

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

18W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

G84

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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