AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +7013%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

16

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

47W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

G84

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

389 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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