NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 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 75W)
AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
+1262%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Pitcairn
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
212 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
