NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +7310%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hawaii

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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