NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon Pro W5500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 125W)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +5517%

5.224 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Feb 2020

GeForce 8

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1744 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

32

Shading Units

1408

16

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 14

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

Tesla

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.5

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