NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +5086%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

896

8

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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