AMD FireStream 9350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 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 FireStream 9350 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9350
+2067%
2.016 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
18
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1440
Shading Units
32
72
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.016 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
403.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
47W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G84
Cypress PRO GL
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
