AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +5955%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/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

580W

TDP

75W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

4x 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

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