AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+5955%
5.632 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
290W
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
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
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
