NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD FirePro S9000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD FirePro S9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 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 225W)

AMD FirePro S9000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000 +4144%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

FirePro S9000

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/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

28.80 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

225W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

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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