AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +1152%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Dec 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

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G84

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 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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