AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost 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

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +3464%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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