AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +6059%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2007

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G84

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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