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 |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | 2x DVI | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | PCI |
Length | 170 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | |
Memory bandwidth | 24 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | |
Memory type | GDDR3 |