NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

ATI Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 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 175W)

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830 +4615%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2010

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

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1120

8

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 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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