Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
2784 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+7443%
5733
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
32
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
47W
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G84
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
438 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