AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W8000 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +3368%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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