NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 47 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 47 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark		82
PassMark - G2D Mark		345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		795

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G84	C78
Launch date	17 April 2007	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$159
Place in performance rating	not rated	929
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	47 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Length	170 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	24 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3