NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM +560%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 8

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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