GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition sales 17 April 2007 at a recommended price of $159 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 24 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 47 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G84 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 17 April 2007 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $159 |
Technical specs
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 47 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 9.600 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 92.8 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 170 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 24 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition is Radeon HD 4550.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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