NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI FirePro V4900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI FirePro V4900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 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 75W)

ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro V4900 +1921%

0.768 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

FirePro V4900

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

480

8

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Turks

-

GPU Variant

Turks XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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