AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 RX 560 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +2707%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 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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