AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +4304%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 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

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

2

AMD Radeon RX 7800 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

3

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

4

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

6

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

8

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

9

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

10

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

Related News

1

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

2

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

3

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

4

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

5

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation

6

Concerns Raised by Unstable 13th/14th Gen Core CPUs: Motherboard Manufacturers Worry About Impact on Arrow Lake Release and Sales

7

Do You Really Know What a "Rendering Engine" Is? Read This Article to Understand All About It

8

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

9

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

10

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower