NVIDIA NVS 315 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 315 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 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 NVS 315 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 315 +7%

0.1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

NVS 315

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

NVS

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

875 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.00GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.046 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

4.184 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

100.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

8.368 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

GF119-825-A1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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