AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +7310%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/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

4.320 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G84

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G84-303-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

580W

TDP

47W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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