AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 OEM +436%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Sep 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

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

31.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

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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