NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD FirePro RG220A

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS +16%

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

1

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M93

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

35W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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