NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 4580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4580 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 65W)

ATI Radeon HD 4580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.18GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4580 +402%

0.191 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 4580

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

693 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.18GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.184 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.368 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

191.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV635

-

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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