GeForce 8600 GT and Radeon Pro 580 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GT vs Radeon Pro 580
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon Pro 580
7986
GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon Pro 580
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G84
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2007
June 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
540 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
76.16 gflops
6,175 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
47 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.6 billion/sec
172.8
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
6780 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
217.0 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131