NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +8708%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Fiji

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

596 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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