NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 5730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 5730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5730 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 64W)

ATI Radeon HD 5730 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5730 +1531%

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 5730

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

400

8

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

64W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Redwood

-

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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