AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 310 OEM +201%

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 310 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Sep 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

160

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

G84

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

67 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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