AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 R7 250 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +1786%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G84

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 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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