AMD Radeon HD 7720 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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AMD Radeon HD 7720 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7720 OEM 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 7720 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7720 OEM +3436%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7720 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G84

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

150W

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

-

Power Connectors

None

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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