NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +13996%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Vega 10

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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