Radeon R7 360 vs GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 360 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 360
+1634%
1613
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
93
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2007
Pirate Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
16.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
1.613 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
100.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tobago
GPU Name
G84
Tobago PRO
(215-0875010)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
