ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
88 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (73W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
+54%
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Sep 2007
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
120
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G84
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
