AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6790 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +1345%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

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GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G84

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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