NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G +6490%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Sep 2007

Release Date

Oct 2018

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

1330 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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