NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6770

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 6770

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6770 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 108W)

AMD Radeon HD 6770 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6770 +1689%

1.36 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 6770

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 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

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.60 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.00 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1360 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

108W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Juniper

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Juniper XT (215-0754013)

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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