NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD FirePro W2100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD FirePro W2100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 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 28.80GB/s)

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock680MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100 +367%

0.435 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

FirePro W2100

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

630 MHz

-

Boost Clock

680 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.440 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.60 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

435.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

27.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

26W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Oland

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 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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