NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 3610

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 3610

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3610 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 12.67GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3610 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

88 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3610 +53%

0.143 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 3610

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

120

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.752 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

35W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV630

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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