NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 21.34GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720 +312%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

60W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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