AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameG84Oland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (16 years old)1 November 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data
Current price$84 (0.4x MSRP)$240

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32384
Core clock speed675 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors289 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8 billion/sec18.72
Floating-point performance92.8 gflops499.2 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length198 mm168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone
SLI options+no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s14.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMIno data+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 17 April 2007 1 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 50 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GTS and Radeon R5 240 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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