NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9370
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 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
Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
FireStream 9370
+2738%
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 8
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Cypress
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
334 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
