NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP +2527%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Trinidad

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 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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