AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 1024SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1008 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370 1024SP +5155%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370 1024SP

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 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

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1024

Shading Units

16

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

-

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

G84

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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