NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +2707%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 21

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

3 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 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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