AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 285 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +8557%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G84

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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