AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/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 Sky 500 +2515%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G84

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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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