Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 560 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1275MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1008 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 560
+6771%
2611
GeForce 8600 GS
38
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2007
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1175 MHz
Base Clock
-
1275 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1024
Shading Units
16
64
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
20.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
2.611 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.611 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
163.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Polaris 21
GPU Name
G84
Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
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
