ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI 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
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
More VRAM (128GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2007
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
83 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
128MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
-
Shading Units
32
1
TMUs
16
1
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
G84
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Rage 2
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
