AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +5704%

5.398 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Sep 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1536

Shading Units

32

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

125W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

G84

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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