AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +4312%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 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

1008 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 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

Tonga

GPU Name

G84

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

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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