NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT +106%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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