AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 260X
+2019%
1.971 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Apr 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1625 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
104.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
896
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
115W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Bonaire
GPU Name
G84
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
160 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
