NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD FirePro S10000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 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 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 +4380%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Zaphod

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 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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