AMD Radeon R7 360 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon R7 360 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 360 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 360 +1634%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 360

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GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.613 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

100.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tobago

GPU Name

G84

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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