NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 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 250W)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.68GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2 +975%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

R700

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

256 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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