NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560D 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 65W)
AMD Radeon RX 560D 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1175MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 560D
+2164%
2.106 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jul 2017
GeForce 8
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1090 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
896
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Polaris 21
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
3 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
123 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
