NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9200 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).

 

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 9200

  • 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 9200

Name NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark 169
PassMark - G2D Mark 27
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 502
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 502

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9200

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 1684
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

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