NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +2824%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cypress

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

188W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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