GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition and Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling - video card comparison

GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)

GPU code name

G84

Vega 10

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2007

August 2017

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1668 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

1408 MHz

Floating-point performance

92.8 gflops

14,336 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

12,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

47 Watt

345 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.600

427.0

Memory type

GDDR3

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

2048 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

1890 MHz

Memory bandwidth

24 GB/s

483.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.125