This is a comprehensive analysis comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP on one side and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition on the other side.
The first video card was released on May 15th, 2006. This GPU is equipped with 128 MB of DDR2 memory, with a bandwidth of 10.40 GB/s. The architecture of this card: base clock of and a boost clock of , TDP of this video card is 24 W.
The second video card was released on Sep 21st, 2007 and comes with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, with a bandwidth of 32.26 GB/s. This GPU also has a base clock of and a boost clock of , and it has a TDP of 75 W.
This table also comprises board specifications, pixel and texture filtration, launch price, and benchmarks such as G3DMark, PassMark G2D, 3DMark Firestrike, FPS, and Hashrate.
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Graphics Processor | ||
GPU Name: | NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP | NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition |
GPU Variant: | G73-VZ-N-B1 | G84-400-A2 |
Processor: | Curie | Tesla |
Foundry: | TSMC | TSMC |
Technology: | 90 nm | 80 nm |
Transistors: | 177 million | 289 million |
Die Size: | 125 mm² | 169 mm² |
General information | ||
Release Date: | May 15th, 2006 | Sep 21st, 2007 |
Availability: | - | - |
Generation: | GeForce 7 AGP (7300) | GeForce 8 (8600) |
Predecessor: | GeForce 6 AGP | GeForce 7 PCIe |
Successor: | GeForce 8 | GeForce 9 |
Production: | End-of-life | End-of-life |
Launch Price: | - | - |
Current Price: | - | - |
Bus Interface: | AGP 8x | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Reviews: | 42 in our database | 183 in our database |
Clock Speeds | ||
Base Clock Speed: | - | - |
Boost Clock Speed: | - | - |
SOC clock: | - | - |
UVD clock: | - | - |
Memory Clock: | 325 MHz 650 Mbps effective | 1008 MHz 2 Gbps effective |
Memory specs | ||
RAM: | 128 MB | 512 MB |
Type of memory: | DDR2 | GDDR3 |
Memory Bus: | 128 bit | 128 bit |
Memory Bandwidth: | 10.40 GB/s | 32.26 GB/s |
Render Config | ||
Shading Units: | - | 32 |
TMUs: | 8 | 16 |
ROPs: | 8 | 8 |
Compute units: | - | - |
Tensor Cores: | - | - |
RT Cores: | - | - |
L0 Cache: | - | - |
L1 Cache: | - | - |
L2 Cache: | - | 32 KB |
L3 Cache: | - | - |
Theoretical Performance | ||
Pixel Fillrate: | 2.800 GPixel/s | 5.400 GPixel/s |
Texture Fillrate: | 2.800 GTexel/s | 10.80 GTexel/s |
FP32 (float): | - | 92.80 GFLOPS |
Board specs | ||
Slot Width: | Single-slot | Single-slot |
Length: | - | - |
Width: | - | - |
Height: | - | - |
TDP: | 24 W | 75 W |
Suggested PSU: | 200 W | 250 W |
Outputs: | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video | 2x DVI |
Power Connectors: | None | 1x 6-pin |
Part Number: | - | - |
Board Number: | P501 | P401 |
Technology Support | ||
DirectX: | 9.0c (9_3) | 11.1 (10_0) |
OpenGL: | 2.1 | 3.3 |
OpenCL: | N/A | 1.1 |
Vulkan: | N/A | N/A |
CUDA: | - | - |
Shader Model: | - | - |
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