AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB +8860%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Orthrus

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

375W

TDP

47W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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