NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 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 64W)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition +1163%

0.96 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

64W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Juniper

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Juniper CE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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