NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +2145%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1440

16

TMUs

72

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

302W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Hemlock

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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