NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +6064%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Vesuvius

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

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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