AMD Radeon Pro W5700X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 205W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro W5700X
+11125%
10.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2019
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1243 MHz
Base Clock
-
2040 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
130.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
326.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
20.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
652.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
205W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
4x Thunderbolt
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
251 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
