AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +7436%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

47W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G84

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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