AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 260 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +1551%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G84

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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