ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 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 X2 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 140W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X2
+360%
0.428 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Sep 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
1008 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
52.99GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
85.63 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
140W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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
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
