NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 +556%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Oland

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 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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