AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 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 R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 240 OEM +544%

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

77 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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