ATI FirePro V3900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

ATI FirePro V3900

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V3900 +1542%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

480

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

G84

Turks GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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