NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT 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 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
+123%
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 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
-
-
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-
-
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
4
64
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
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-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
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
