AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +5300%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G84

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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