NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (47W vs 73W)

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

88 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600 +89%

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

73W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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