AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +2493%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

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

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

896

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G84

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

G84-303-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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