NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM +15252%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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