NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

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 W6800X +20992%

16.03 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon Pro W6800X

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

Apple MPX

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2087 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

-

Compute Units

60

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

240

8

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

200.4 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

500.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.06 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.03 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1002 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

None

Power Connectors

Apple MPX

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 21

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

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

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

6.7

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