NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 360E
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 360E to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 360E 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 360E
+1634%
1.613 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Dec 2015
GeForce 8
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.80 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.613 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
100.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Tobago
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
Tobago PRO
(215-0875010)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
