AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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 S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9300 X2 +20918%

7.987 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM

Memory Type

DDR2

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

4096

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

47W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

G84

Capsaicin XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

596 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

6.0

Shader Model

4.0

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