NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 80W)

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

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

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE +1083%

1.101 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 8

Generation

Volcanic 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

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

80W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

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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