ATI Radeon HD 5690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5690

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

368 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 64W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5690 +566%

0.62 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

15.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

620.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

64W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G84

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

GPU Variant

G84-400-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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