AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 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 1 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+4304%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 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
1008 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2048
Shading Units
32
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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
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
