AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1284MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2032 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +13739%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

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

-

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

16

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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