NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1085MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 770
+3483%
3.333 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Sep 2007
GeForce 700
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1046 MHz
Base Clock
-
1085 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
34.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
138.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.333 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
138.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
230W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G84
GK104-425-A2
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
