GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5750

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking775not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.41no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameJuniperG84
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 October 2009 (15 years ago)21 September 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores72032
Core clock speed700 MHz675 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million289 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)86 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2010.80
Floating-point processing power1.008 TFLOPS0.0928 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length178 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth73.6 GB/s32.26 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2009 21 September 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 86 Watt 75 Watt

ATI HD 5750 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

8600 GTS Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 14.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5750 and GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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