ATI FireGL V5600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
88 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 89W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V5600
+106%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
35.20GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/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
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
6.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
89W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G84
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
G84-303-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
