NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD FirePro W4300

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD FirePro W4300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300 +1435%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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