NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 470D 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +4547%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 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

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Ellesmere

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

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

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 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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