AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +5955%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

32

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G84

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

290W

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 (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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