ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4850

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850 +975%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

63.55GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

110W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G84

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

G84-400-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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