GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
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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 0.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 24 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics 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.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the 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 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $159 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
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 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 289 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 47 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 9.600 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.0928 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 32 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 750 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 24 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 and SDK 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 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| 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 4350.
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Recommended processors
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