AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +23577%

22.02 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

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

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

5120

Shading Units

32

320

TMUs

16

128

ROPs

8

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

G84

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

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

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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