NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +11233%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 8

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

224

8

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Vega 10

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

210W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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