NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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 159W)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
+373%
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
159W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
R600
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
