NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI FirePro V3800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI FirePro V3800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM FirePro V3800 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 14.40GB/s)

ATI FirePro V3800 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (43W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V3800 +459%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

FirePro V3800

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

43W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Redwood

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

104 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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