Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2581MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 230W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6700 XT
+14104%
13210
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Mar 2021
Release Date
Apr 2007
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2321 MHz
Base Clock
-
2581 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
96 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
413.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
26.43 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
825.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
230W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 22
GPU Name
G84
Navi 22 XT
(215-127000006)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
17.2 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
335 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0