NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD FirePro D300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD FirePro D300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro D300 +2763%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

FirePro D300

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

162.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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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