AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX +2671%

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

896

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

G84-303-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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