NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2105MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +17287%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1700 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.26GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

240

8

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 21

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

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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