NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD FirePro R5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 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 150W)

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000 +1262%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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