AMD Radeon R7 265 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 265

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265 +1936%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

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

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G84

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 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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