AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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

Released 8 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +10678%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 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

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

4096

Shading Units

32

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G84

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

596 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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