NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 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 180W)
AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 570 X2
+5211%
4.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 8
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
2100 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
268.8GB/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
180W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Polaris 20
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052)
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
