AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon RX 580G NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G 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 580G 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580G +6490%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1330 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

191.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

6.129 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.129 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

383.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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