NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

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

4576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT +27189%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

72

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

4608

16

TMUs

288

8

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

72

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

648.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

41.47 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1296 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 21

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

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

6.5

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