AMD Radeon R7 250E vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 250E 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 250E
+780%
0.819 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Sep 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
512
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
25.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
819.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
51.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cape Verde
GPU Name
G84
Cape Verde PRO
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
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
