NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 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 50W)

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100 +3657%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 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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