ATI FireGL V8650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
+373%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
60W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G84
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
