Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+6059%
5728
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2304
Shading Units
32
144
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
G84
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0