AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +34400%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR2

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

4096

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.320 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.08 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

47W

700 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 Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G84

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

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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