NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 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)

Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.56GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690 +1028%

0.429 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/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

10.72 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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