AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
+6847%
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GS
0.038 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1600
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G84
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
