GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon Instinct MI50 - video card comparison
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon Instinct MI50
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)
GPU code name
G84
Vega 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1746 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1200 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
13,230 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
3840
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
419.0
Memory type
GDDR3
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
16 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4096 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
1.02 TB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3