Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce 8600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3850 X3 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 145W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
+463%
428
GeForce 8600 GT
76
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.640 GTexel/s
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
76.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
47W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G84
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0