AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W9000 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +4194%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 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

1008 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

G84-400-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

274W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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