NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4520 +26%

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

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)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

25W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV710

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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