NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 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 85W)

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM +4144%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

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

12

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

85W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tobago

-

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

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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