NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +33215%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1247 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR2

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

4096

8

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

295W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Vega 10

-

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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