NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2460 Multi View to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
ATI FirePro 2460 Multi View 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
48 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (17W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
+16%
0.093 TFLOPS
FirePro 2460 Multi View
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
80
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
17W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Cedar
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cedar GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
