AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

4064 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +13996%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jul 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

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

4096

Shading Units

32

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

60W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G84

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

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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