NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G84 G96C
GPU variant G84-303-A2 G96-875-C1
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 289 million 314 million
Die size 169 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007 Apr 9th, 2009
Generation GeForce 8 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 159 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 1450 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory clock 750 MHz 1500 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 24.00 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 8
SM count 4 4
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.800 GPixel/s 3.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 9.600 GTexel/s 7.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 92.80 GFLOPS 72.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches 198 mm 7.8 inches
TDP 47 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Board number P402 P788
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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