NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +4884%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 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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