AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X 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 W6800X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2087MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X +17136%

16.03 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Sep 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

-

2087 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

3840

Shading Units

32

240

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

8

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

200.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

500.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

32.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

1002 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

2x DVI

Apple MPX

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

G84

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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