NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
+3%
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
121 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
