NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 65W)

AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250 OEM +960%

0.806 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon R7 250 OEM

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

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.400 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

806.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

50.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Oland

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Oland XT (215-0837000)

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

Board Design

47W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

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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