AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM 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 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 360 OEM +2022%

1.613 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

1.613 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

100.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tobago

GPU Name

G84

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

160 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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