AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +27636%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Vega

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR2

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

16

224

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G84

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

47W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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