NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +6539%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

32

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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