NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 8770 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon HD 8770 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8770 OEM 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 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 8770 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8770 OEM +1923%

1.882 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon HD 8770 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

32

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.80 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.882 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

117.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Bonaire

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

85W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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