AMD FirePro S9100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD FirePro S9100

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9100 +5451%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2560

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G84

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

438 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

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