AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +6098%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

107W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

G84

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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