NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +21457%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

4096

8

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Fiji

-

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

596 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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