NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon R9 370

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon R9 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 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 110W)

AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 +2583%

2.496 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon R9 370

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 8

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.496 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

156.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Trinidad

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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