NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 73W)
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
+54%
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
73W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
RV630
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
