NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 +6603%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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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