NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP 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 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP +434%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/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

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV670

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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