AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +16150%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2304

Shading Units

16

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

47W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G84

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

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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