NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 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 204W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
208 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+661%
0.708 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 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
1242 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
159.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
30
32
Shading Units
240
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.74 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
708.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
88.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
204W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
GT200B
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
G200-350-B3
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
