AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +2019%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 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

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x 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 XTX (215-0839097)

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD FirePro W4100

2

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

3

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

4

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 3750

5

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

6

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

7

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI FirePro V9800P

8

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

9

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

10

AMD Radeon R7 260X vs AMD Radeon RX 6300

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU