NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 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 7950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock3000MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

5344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XT +84781%

64.51 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 8

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

3000 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

84

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

5376

16

TMUs

336

8

ROPs

192

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

80 MB

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

576.0 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1008 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

129.0 TFLOPS

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.51 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.016 TFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 31

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT+

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

529 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

6.7

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