NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 10.67GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 +115%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

160

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

2.500 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 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

Caicos

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 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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