NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM 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 110W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

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 RX 5500 OEM +5487%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 8

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1408

16

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

110W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Navi 14

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

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

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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