NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 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 304W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2970MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+52222%
48.66 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 8
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1660 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
750 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
24.00GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
4096
16
TMUs
256
8
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
32 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
304W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Navi 48
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
Tesla
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
