NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 200W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +910%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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