AMD Radeon HD 6390 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6390

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6390 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6390 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6390 +826%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6390

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G84

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

-

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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