NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V5600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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
Lower TDP (47W vs 89W)
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FireGL V5600
+106%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/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
3.200 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
89W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
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
