NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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 150W)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +1345%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Barts

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

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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