AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +3974%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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