AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +4380%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G84

Orthrus

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

47W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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