NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +2019%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 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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