NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +7554%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 30

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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