NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 107W)
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GT
0.076 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+7485%
5.765 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 8
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2310 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1024
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
8.640 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
76.16 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
47W
TDP
107W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Navi 24
G84-303-A2
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
Tesla
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
