NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 250W)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.68GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2 +2531%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R700

-

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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