NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+2294%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
274W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Tahiti
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
