GeForce 8600 GT and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G84
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
December 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
540 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
64
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A