NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

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

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +5554%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 8

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1168 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Polaris 20

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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

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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