ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 5690 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 64W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690 +715%

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

400

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

64W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G84

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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