NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI 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 9.600GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
+189%
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
750 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
49W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GF108
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
