NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD FirePro S9100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD FirePro S9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100 +11002%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

225W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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