NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI FirePro V7900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI FirePro V7900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 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)

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900 +1895%

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

FirePro V7900

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

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

58.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cayman

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

389 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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