AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +5394%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1440

Shading Units

16

72

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G84

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

334 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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