Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce 8600 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
2528 additional rendering cores
GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+10388%
9754
GeForce 8600 GTS
93
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Apr 2007
Navi
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
2560
Shading Units
32
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
60W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
G84
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
251 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
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0