AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +10700%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G84

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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