NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT AMD Radeon Pro W6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2320MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800 +23347%

17.82 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

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Radeon Pro W6800

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jun 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2075 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2320 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

32

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

240

8

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

222.7 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.64 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

17.82 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1114 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 21

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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