NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 120W)
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
+5211%
4.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 8
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
120W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
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
