NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (47W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+152%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
4
64
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G84
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
240 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
