AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 R9 270 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +2446%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

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GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G84

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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