NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4670 AGP 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 25.60GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4670 AGP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (59W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4670 AGP +416%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 4670 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jul 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

59W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

RV730

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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