NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 210 Rev. 2 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 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Lower TDP (31W vs 47W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+138%
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce 210 Rev. 2
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
47W
TDP
31W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT218
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GT218-325-B1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
