NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 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 26.56GB/s)

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690 +361%

0.429 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV670

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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