NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +8509%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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