GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +546%

601

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

93

GeForce GTS 450

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

G84

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

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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