ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +3057%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G84

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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