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NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8300 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce 8300 GS
0.015 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition +520%
0.093 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Apr 2007
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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-
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400 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz

Memory

128MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s

Render Config

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1
SM Count
4
8
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
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-
-
-
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-
-
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16 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-

Theoretical Performance

1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
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14.69 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
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-

Board Design

40W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G86
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
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