NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 19.20GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530 +584%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Redwood

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 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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