ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4850

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 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 4850 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850 +1215%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

993 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

63.55GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

110W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G84

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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