ATI Radeon HD 3830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3830

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.50GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3830 +463%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

26.50GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G84

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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