AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2581MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700 XT +17281%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2021

Release Date

Apr 2007

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

-

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2560

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

230W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

G84

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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