NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 5470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

ATI Radeon HD 5470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5470 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 6.400GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5470 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5470 +11%

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 5470

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

80

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cedar

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cedar PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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