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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
VS
AMD Radeon R9 290X
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
AMD Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X +14721%
5.632 TFLOPS
VS

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
1250 MHz

Memory

512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
44
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
2816
8
TMUs
176
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
4.320 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
38.08 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W
TDP
290W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84
GPU Name
Hawaii
-
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT (215-0852000)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
438 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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