NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

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

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +4885%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Sea Islands

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

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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