NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI355X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 288GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI355X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 1400W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI355X 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock2100MHz
More VRAM (288GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (8.19TB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
19424 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI355X
+87770%
81.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 8
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2100 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
288GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM3e
128bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
8.19TB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
304
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
19456
16
TMUs
1216
8
ROPs
0
-
Tensor Cores
1216
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 MB
-
L3 Cache
256 MB
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2553.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
653.7 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
81.72 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
81.72 TFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
1400W
250 W
Suggested PSU
1800 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Aqua Vanjaram X
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
CDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
3 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
153 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
1017 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
N/A
3.3
OpenGL
N/A
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
N/A
