AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 570 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 +5378%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

G84-400-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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