NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 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 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB +3561%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Tahiti

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Orthrus

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

352 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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