NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 430 OEM 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 50W)

AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 430 OEM +1476%

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon R7 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Oland

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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