ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP +360%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Sep 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G84

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G84-400-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

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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