NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1750MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
3808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Radeon VII
+14351%
13.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2007
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 8
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1400 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
32.26GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
3840
16
TMUs
240
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
5.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
10.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
92.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
295W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G84
GPU Name
Vega 20
G84-400-A2
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.289 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
169 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
