AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +6400%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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