GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8600 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 85W)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2
+1517%
1229
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
8.640 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
76.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1229 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
85W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Tahiti
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
(215-0821056)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
