ATI FirePro V7900 SDI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI 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 V7900 SDI 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V7900 SDI +4784%

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900 SDI

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

1.856 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G84

Cayman PRO GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

389 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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