NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+261%
0.336 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 8
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
4
112
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
125W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G84
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
169 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
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
