ATI FireGL V7100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R423 G84
GPU variant R423 GL NB8P-GS
Architecture R400 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 289 million
Die size 289 mm² 169 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 1st, 2004
Generation FireGL
Production End-of-life
Launch price 1,099 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 5 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 493 MHz 470 MHz
Memory clock 475 MHz 950 Mbps effective 635 MHz 1270 Mbps effective
Shader clock 940 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 30.40 GB/s 20.32 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 16
Vertex shaders 6
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 16 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 7.888 GPixel/s 3.760 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 739.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 7.888 GTexel/s 7.520 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 60.16 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 211 mm 8.3 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 91 W 20 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number A322

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 5th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8M (8000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce Go 7
Successor GeForce 9M

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