AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 W9000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +10410%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti XT GL

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

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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