NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP +276%

0.143 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

35W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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