NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT +209%

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R600

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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