AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 17 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2520MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
3552 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070
+38749%
36.13 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Apr 2007
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1330 MHz
Base Clock
-
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
3584
Shading Units
32
224
TMUs
16
128
ROPs
8
112
Tensor Cores
-
56
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
8 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
72.25 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
36.13 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
220W
TDP
47W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
G84
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
80 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
