NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2581MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +34663%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2321 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

8

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

40

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

L3 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

230W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 22

-

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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