NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM FirePro 2260 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

ATI FirePro 2260 PCI 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

24 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (15W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro 2260 PCI +5%

0.04 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

FirePro 2260 PCI

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

40

8

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

15W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV620

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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