Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+3495%
3344
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1792
Shading Units
32
112
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G84
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0