AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +5086%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

16

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

4.320 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G84

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

-

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

85W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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